2010 (71)
- 2010.09.07 ISCRIM2010
I am currently attending the 2010 seminar of the International Supply…
- 2010.09.04 Christchurch earthquake and transportation resilience
Resilient organizations and the Christchurch…
- 2010.09.02 Book Review: Risk Modeling, Assessment, and Management
I am amazed at what this book covers – it does contain all you…
- 2010.08.30 Infrastructure Vulnerability
This paper describes an infrastructure risk analysis model,…
- 2010.08.28 Importance and Exposure – Measures of Road Network Vulnerability?
The paper calculates several indices for link importance and site…
- 2010.08.27 Logipi – why you should listen to it
Logipi.com is the brainchild of Dustin Mattson and is a site with a…
- 2010.08.26 The ISCRIM Newsletter 1/2010
Published 2-3 times a year by the International Supply Chain Risk…
- 2010.08.25 Blog Supply Chain Risk: Writer’s Block
Considering what I wrote in my post on the supply chain of my blog,…
- 2010.08.24 Next time in China: Guanxi
Guanxi: Connections and relations are what matter most, while…
- 2010.08.23 Supply Chain Risk: Culture Shock
Is culture shock the reason why so many global and cross-culture…
- 2010.08.04 Book Review: Humanitarian Logistics
This book matches humanitarian logistics with corporate social…
- 2010.07.11 WCTR 2010
Are “bad” locations synonymous with “bad” logistics? That is the…
- 2010.07.01 Mitigating Supply Chain Vulnerability
Here is a risk assessment index that can be used to measure the…
- 2010.06.23 Humanitarian Relief Supply Chains
What are the key supply chain factors for improving disaster supply…
- 2010.06.19 The causes of logistics uncertainty
Logistics uncertainty – a new research strand in supply chain risk…
- 2010.06.14 How Norwegian freight carriers handle supply chain disruptions
How are the supply chains of companies located in sparse…
- 2010.06.11 State of the art in SCRM?
Supply chain risk management is a process with 5 evolutionary steps,…
- 2010.05.03 Risk and Vulnerability in Virtual Enterprise Networks
Conceptual in its approach and drawing from other areas of research,…
- 2010.04.30 What goes into resilience?
Resilience, in essence, is bridging vulnerabilities by honing…
- 2010.04.29 Pay more get more?
“Suitemates” is the big new marketing campaign by Kinaxis. Episode 5…
- 2010.04.24 Volcanic ash cloud – really a surprise?
Icelandic civil aviation authorities have warned Europe for a long…
- 2010.04.23 Managing risk together
How do risks in supply relationships and and organizational learning…
- 2010.04.21 Using social media in a crisis
Scandinavian Airlines launched its Facebook page the day before the…
- 2010.04.21 Sweet Seduction
“Suitemates” is the big new marketing campaign by Kinaxis. Episode 4…
- 2010.04.20 Book Review: Heads in the sand
What is business continuity really? It is the social responsibility…
- 2010.04.19 Volcanic Ash Cloud Day 5
Today is Day Five of the infamous volcanic ash cloud disruption. Does…
- 2010.04.18 Can we do without air traffic?
The German newspaper Die Welt has an interesting, semi-humorous…
- 2010.04.17 Business continuity 101
This is the 3rd day with severe transportation and thus supply chain…
- 2010.04.16 Not all risk is risk
The article lists and discusses eight risk definitions, and then…
- 2010.04.15 Today’s transport disruption: volcanoes
Now Norway and much of Northern Europe are facing a major supply…
- 2010.04.14 Downgrades are upgrades
Their software is so full of bugs that even upgrading doesn’t fix it,…
- 2010.04.13 Supply chain vulnerability: A list of mitigation strategies
Which mitigation strategy that works best when faced with which…
- 2010.04.12 Vulnerable or valuable supply chain?
Supply chain integrity must encompass both operational and…
- 2010.04.11 Time for a change
With the help of a weekend, and the principle of KISS (Keep It Simple…
- 2010.04.10 Suites – what suites?
Today they take us back to their company presentation after their…
- 2010.04.09 Risk versus vulnerability
In this paper safety and security are brought together in a unifying…
- 2010.04.04 Friend or foe or both?
Supply chain collaboration, easy or difficult? And can it really…
- 2010.04.03 Flexing your SCM muscles
Flexible supply chains can indeed “flex” their supply chain…
- 2010.04.01 ERP consultants: A nightmare
Suitemates is produced by Kinaxis, a Canada-based company that…
- 2010.03.29 Shrink Shrank Shrunk
This is one of the articles – if not THE article – that paved the way…
- 2010.03.28 Transportation – the forgotten staple
Transportation is a staple ingredient in supply chains and…
- 2010.03.27 Ménage à trois – the good, the bad and the ugly
Triads in supply networks: Theorizing buyer-supplier-relationships …
- 2010.03.25 Humanitarian aid is better when decentralized
Decentralization, pre-positioning and pooling of relief items are key…
- 2010.03.24 Business Continuity in Global Supply Chains
Essentially, there is no difference between a business continuity…
- 2010.03.23 Supply Chain Risk Webinars
I do have a lecture on supply chain risk, but not in webinar style….
- 2010.03.21 Humanitarian Logistics
Now there is a new source for knowledge on disaster management and…
- 2010.03.18 Better Alexa ranking – how to
Today I will share some personal thoughts on my blogging: The magic…
- 2010.03.17 Published. Not perished.
Publish or perish? Publish. It has taken its time, but finally it is…
- 2010.03.16 Book Review: Managing Risk and Security
This book focuses specifically on security risks, as seen from the…
- 2010.03.13 Book Review: The Geography of Transport Systems
This book will fascinate, because it so brilliantly explains,…
- 2010.03.10 Pyramidal thoughts
If you are a supply chain or logistics academic or researcher,…
- 2010.03.08 Contingent flexibility
Can contingency planning increase flexibility and minimize risk…
- 2010.03.05 Managing supply chains in times of crisis
How do you prepare a supply chain for a crisis, and how do you manage…
- 2010.03.03 Risk Disablers
A new framework for the interpretation of supply chain risk…
- 2010.03.01 Community resilience in times of disaster
Can public-private partnerships improve community resilience?…
- 2010.02.26 Certain death: Not risky. Uncertain death: risky.
It is only when the consequences of actions and events are uncertain…
- 2010.02.23 Information Risk Management
The article highlights that information risks are interrelated and…
- 2010.02.20 Risk Analysis of Critical Infrastructures
This article presents a new conceptual approach and extended…
- 2010.02.18 Less cost and less disruptions?
If you know that your shipment will arrive late, you are perhaps less…
- 2010.02.12 Supply Chain Risk: Invasive Species
The global network of ships criss-crossing the oceans provide perhaps…
- 2010.02.10 The 2nd Supply Chain Risk Management Seminar Barcelona
The main focus of this seminar is how leading companies are tackling…
- 2010.01.25 A note to my readers
I’m moving house and I’ve been renovating my new apartment every…
- 2010.01.13 Resilience Lessons from the Haiti Earthquake
The recent earthquake in Haiti is a poignant reminder of how…
- 2010.01.11 If the UK goes cold, blame me
The BBC reports that National Grid has issued its latest “balancing…
- 2010.01.09 The Definition of Agility
This is the only reference I have found that properly differentiates…
- 2010.01.07 No grit No roads No show?
No grit means no cleared roads means no one able to get anywhere and…
- 2010.01.06 Security of supply
Today’s paper describes how Finland views logistics and supply as…
- 2010.01.05 SME: A supply chain risk?
Does having Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) in your supply…
- 2010.01.04 Supply Chain Risk Literature: a complete review
Finally, here it is, the complete review of some 160 or so articles…
- 2010.01.02 Does a blog have a supply chain?
If that is the case, are blogs exposed to supply chain risks? This…
- 2010.01.01 2009 – traffic and such
One post in particular stands out, but not for the reason I expected….
2009 (164)
- 2009.12.27 2009 – looking back
Time for a short review of 2009, looking back at how this blog has…
- 2009.12.22 Happy Holidelays!
We rarely see news flashes of truck drivers stuck in snow, or…
- 2009.12.21 Book Review: HBR on Crisis Management
Close calls and near misses are not unusual in the business world,…
- 2009.12.19 SAAB no more…
What do you when your major customer goes bust? How do you cope with…
- 2009.12.18 Contemplating…Ken Simpson
Ken’s blog is a must read for the business continuity professional…
- 2009.12.17 Risk Management in Maritime Transportation Networks
Merchant shipping and port services play a key role in worldwide…
- 2009.12.16 Coping with risk and resilience in maritime logistics
Risks in maritime supply chains are perhaps an underresearched area…
- 2009.12.15 Risk and vulnerability in maritime supply chains
The complex interaction of ports, maritime operations and supply…
- 2009.12.14 Risks in maritime supply chains
Sea transport constitutes the major part of almost every supply…
- 2009.12.13 Call for papers: Risk Management in Supply Chains
The recent trends such as offshore manufacturing, lean sourcing and…
- 2009.12.11 Book Review: Enterprise SCM
What we have here is a book that fully covers the complete setup of a…
- 2009.12.10 Dignitary Visits and Supply Chain Disruptions
Today is an important day here in Norway. Some Mr. Barack Obama comes…
- 2009.12.10 Book Review: HBR on Supply Chain Management
The overarching theme of this book is the development of supply chain…
- 2009.12.09 Book Review: Managing External Risk
You don’t need to have an MBA to be enable to enjoy this book,…
- 2009.12.08 Risks and supply chains… stochastically speaking2
Little did I know when I started reading this paper that it was…
- 2009.12.07 Supply Chain Confidence
Traditionally, papers on supply chain risk use the “classic”…
- 2009.12.05 The @risk Blog
It is always nice to find blogs on supply chain risk written by a…
- 2009.12.04 Risk & Vulnerability
Supply chains are increasingly becoming complex webs and networks and…
- 2009.12.03 Risky ramblings
Here, six areas of supply chain risk are highlighted and discussed at…
- 2009.12.02 MITIP 2010 – Call for Papers
The MITIP conferences have proven to be an important forum for…
- 2009.12.01 Perspectives on risk management in supply chains
Today’s article is actually not an article on it’s own, but an…
- 2009.11.27 Road Vulnerability
Today we are going back in time, to one of the seminal articles in…
- 2009.11.26 INSTR 2010 – Call for papers
The aim of INSTR is to bring together researchers and professionals…
- 2009.11.25 Remote Logistics
The other day I came across a post that highlighted the importance of…
- 2009.11.24 Emergency Logistics
Can commercial logistics’ ideas and solutions work in humanitarian…
- 2009.11.23 Risk Management in Global Supply Chain Networks
Supply Chain Risks can be classified as either one of these three,…
- 2009.11.21 Book Review:Managing Risks in Supply Chains
To make up for yesterday’s perhaps overly harsh critique of just…
- 2009.11.20 One bad apple…
…spoils the barrel? While many of the articles/chapters maintain an…
- 2009.11.18 Supply Chain Risk 2009
Supply Chain Risk – The dark side of supply chain management. That…
- 2009.11.17 Mitigating supply chain disruptions is easy
Christopher Tang from UCLA talks about three strategies for building…
- 2009.11.16 Supply, Demand, and … “Miscellanous” Risk?
I’ve said so before, sometimes new articles are found in new and…
- 2009.11.13 The Box is back!
A year ago the BCC started “The Box” project, where BBC News is…
- 2009.11.12 The Kinaxis Blog
Here is a high-quality blog for you, the Kinaxis Blog, or as they put…
- 2009.11.11 Book Review: Managing Supply Chain Risk and Vulnerability
The book serves a twofold purpose: 1) Understanding and assessing…
- 2009.11.09 Book Review: Single Point of Failure
This book shows you how everyone is involved in the supply chain…
- 2009.11.08 Risk and Uncertainty in Supply Chain Management
I am very much impressed with this extensive literature study on risk…
- 2009.11.06 Critical: Beer Distribution
Beer distribution is a sector that will be highly affected by a…
- 2009.11.05 Black Swan Events
Black Swan events – should we even bother? These events are…
- 2009.11.04 Graph Theory to the rescue
While I know that Graph Theory has many applications, I never…
- 2009.11.03 Supply Chain Flexibility in Strategic Networks
What fascinates me with this paper are (1) the parameters defining…
- 2009.11.02 Rigorous Risk Management
Risk management is emerging as a key focus area for corporations,…
- 2009.10.30 Supply Chain Risk – Jetzt auch auf Deutsch
Unbeknown to me – or perhaps I really should have known better –…
- 2009.10.28 Supply chain risk in turbulent environments
What is supply chain risk in turbulent environments really…simply…
- 2009.10.27 Supply Chain Matters
On the Supply Chain Matters blog Bob provides his unbiased views,…
- 2009.10.26 A conceptual model of Supply Chain Flexibility
What do you do when you find two research papers by the same three…
- 2009.10.19 Transportation Lifelines and Critical Infrastructure
This is the first paper that sparked my research interest in…
- 2009.10.05 Transportation Hazards
This is an updated and extended review of the Handbook of…
- 2009.10.01 Humanitarian and military supply chains side-by side
Only by combining military and humanitarian supply chains, the…
- 2009.09.28 Supply chain agility – Risk mitigation and response
How does company culture shape a firm’s risk mitigation and…
- 2009.09.21 Bad locations = bad logistics?
How are companies located in sparse transport networks affected by…
- 2009.09.14 Is Sheffi’s Resilient Enterprise the answer to supply chain risk?
Building a resilient enterprise is an enterprise-wide undertaking …
- 2009.09.07 Is Dynamic Supply Chain Alignment the way of the future?
The key issue is to not make your supply chain one type only, but to…
- 2009.08.31 What’s so special about this Paul Kleindorfer?
Apparently there must be something really special about Paul…
- 2009.08.24 Catastrophic events in supply chains
Finding the right facility location is difficult enough. Keeping it…
- 2009.08.20 The ISCRIM Newsletter 2/2009
As a researcher within supply chain risk, I find the ISCRIM…
- 2009.08.17 Risk management: core competence?
Blindly minimizing risk is a losing proposition in the long term, and…
- 2009.08.10 Measuring supply chain risk management
There can be no generally valid risk for all types of supply chains,…
- 2009.08.03 Supply Chain Risk Management in six steps
Supply management is not just about acquiring goods and services at…
- 2009.07.29 Measuring supply chain risk management and performance
Each individual supply chain is unique in certain respects and this…
- 2009.07.24 Corporate vulnerability
In this study, Svensson investigates the areas, the causes and the…
- 2009.07.21 Are risks in virtual enterprise networks different from supply chains?
Conceptual in its approach and drawing from other areas of research,…
- 2009.07.19 Hard Drive Recovery and Business Continuity
Do you regularly back up vital business information? Not? Well, maybe…
- 2009.07.17 A supply chain is never stronger than the weakest link
Are you the weakest link in your own supply chain? That’s the…
- 2009.07.04 BBC World Debate: Disasters – Prepare or React?
Should we actually bother to spend time and money on disaster…
- 2009.07.01 Supply chain management – the new research cocktail?
Supply Chain Management needs a new way to pursue research, a new way…
- 2009.06.29 Supply chain flexibility – a complete literature review?
Someone had to come up with this, it was just a matter of time, and…
- 2009.06.25 Trust, Control and Risk in Strategic Alliances
Risk perception and risk management are important subjects in…
- 2009.06.23 Biting the hand that feeds. Or why all firms are snakes.
‘All firms are snakes’. So says Paul D. Cousins in A conceptual model…
- 2009.06.22 Does product design have an impact on supply chain risk?
What is in the supply chain is determined by a design process, and…
- 2009.06.19 The latest trends in logistics and supply chain management research
What is at the forefront of current research in supply chain…
- 2009.06.18 Resilience revisited
How many ways are there for defining vulnerability and criticality,…
- 2009.06.17 Highway Vulnerability and Criticality Assessment
Critical asset factors are the criteria used to identify and…
- 2009.06.16 Are roads more important than computers?
Critical Infrastructure. Which is more important – or…
- 2009.06.15 Engineering transportation lifelines
New Zealand is probably not the fist country that comes to mind when…
- 2009.06.13 The six ways of dealing with risk
Avoid, Reduce, Transfer and Retain or Accept are the classic four…
- 2009.06.12 Risk Management: Contingent versus Mitigative
Risk management needs to address both sides of the risk: what lies…
- 2009.06.10 Broader research = better research?
I like mixing ideas, and my approach to logistics, or supply chain…
- 2009.06.09 What kind of Supplychainist are you?
What is SCM really, is it just a new name for logistics or is it…
- 2009.06.08 Supply Chain Risk Management – A relationship approach
SCRM needs to address the whole supply chain, since risk can emanate…
- 2009.06.07 Google Scholar – really scholarly?
Google Scholar is simply a discovery tool for finding scholarly…
- 2009.06.06 Book Review: Handbook of Global Supply Chain Management
This is a handbook indeed, allowing the reader to focus on one area…
- 2009.06.05 How to get a PhD without a dissertation
This is a true story about how I was credited with a PhD without…
- 2009.06.03 Risk in supply networks – a tale of principals and agents
It is not often that I see a paper focusing on the network…
- 2009.06.01 Fragility and sustainability: emerging research areas?
Should short-term loss-minimization and short-term profit…
- 2009.05.30 Online journals – curse or blessing?
Making scholarly articles available online has narrowed citations to…
- 2009.05.29 Supply chain risk management – a complete literature review?
Is it possible to summarize seven years of supply chain risk…
- 2009.05.28 Lean + Agile = LeAgile: a happy marriage?
Opposites attract and in the supply chain world, “lean” and…
- 2009.05.27 The Catch 22 of Academic Publishing
“Publish or perish”. Apparently, getting published in the first…
- 2009.05.26 De-confusing SCRM: robustness, resilience, flexibility and agility
These concepts are often confused, and thus, warrant further…
- 2009.05.25 Book Review: Managing Risk and Resilience in the Supply Chain
This book is clear and concise, to the point, and constantly…
- 2009.05.24 Risk in supply networks – seeing it all, or not?
This paper is an excellent discourse on types of risk, sources of…
- 2009.05.23 The Grapevine – An evolving social media experiment
This is a site dedicated to making it easy for business people to…
- 2009.05.22 Supply Risk Management: just common sense?
There are four situational factors that are important in supply…
- 2009.05.20 A-maze-ing discoveries
After only knowing about it for a day or two, I must say that I am…
- 2009.05.19 Supply Chain Risk Management – as seen from Space
Is it possible to reconcile supply chain vulnerability, risk and…
- 2009.05.18 Secure Supply Chain Collaboration
SecureSCM is an EU-funded research project aimed at finding secure…
- 2009.05.17 Research Blogging – an outlet for the investigative mind?
I have finally found the right outlet for disseminating my literature…
- 2009.05.16 Agile Business Continuity
If people are taught to think continuity in their daily work actions,…
- 2009.05.15 How the wrong people can ruin a supply chain
People are what makes organizations work, or in some cases, not work….
- 2009.05.14 Lean logistics = risky logistics?
Lean does not necessarily make you more vulnerable or less robust…
- 2009.05.13 Finding academic articles without access to academic journals
Many management or supply chain related websites provide the same…
- 2009.05.12 The ISCRIM Newsletter 1/2009
As a researcher within supply chain risk, I find the ISCRIM…
- 2009.05.11 Structural embeddedness and the extended supply chain
We need to consider how a supplier is embedded in its own networks if…
- 2009.05.07 Global supply chain risk management strategies
Three factors affect the selection of risk management strategies:…
- 2009.05.05 Risk and Supply Chain Management – Creating a Research Agenda
Albeit exploratory and conceptual in its approach, the article…
- 2009.04.22 Book Review: Virtual Teams
What is comes down to is that virtual teams have six challenges:…
- 2009.04.20 Economies of integration
The evolutional development of logistics: specialization, economies…
- 2009.04.18 Book Review: Creative Destruction
One of the ways an economy moves forward is by destroying the old in…
- 2009.04.15 Book Review: Enterprise-wide Risk Management
DeLoach has a refreshing new approach to risk management that is is…
- 2009.04.13 Supply Chain Risk – the forgotten discipline
Christopher advocates establishing a supply chain risk profile, with…
- 2009.04.10 Book Review: How Nature Works
Per Bak’s “sandpile” model is as relevant to business and…
- 2009.04.07 Supply Chain Management – does it really exist?
Basically, the two, management and logistics, are living…
- 2009.04.04 Book Review: Cooperative Strategy
This book provides insight into different kinds of cooperative…
- 2009.03.31 Risk in Virtual Enterprise Networks
I must admit that I knew very little, if anything, about Virtual…
- 2009.03.27 A Decade of Living Dangerously
The report not only shows how many managers are aware of a specific…
- 2009.03.26 Risk Avoidance – is that all there is?
The opposite of risk avoidance is risk ignorance. More often than not…
- 2009.03.25 Avbrudd – Forsyningskjedens mørke side
Selv om kostnadsreduserende tiltak og outsourcing kan ha klare…
- 2009.03.24 Book Review: The Full Costs and Benefits of Transportation
I have seldom seen a fuller and more holistic approach to cost and…
- 2009.03.22 The IRM Risk Management Standard
Good corporate governance requires that companies adopt a methodical…
- 2009.03.21 Book Review: Transportation Security
Although at times heavily US and homeland security oriented, this…
- 2009.03.21 The 2009 Nordic Business Continuity Symposium
I guess this will be THE gathering of who’s who in the Nordic…
- 2009.03.20 Risky Thinking
Obviously I cannot make a post on my blog about every wbsite that…
- 2009.03.19 Book Review: Transportation Systems Security
The front cover gives the impression that this book deals with all…
- 2009.03.18 Transportation reliability and vulnerability – a question of cost and benefit?
Engineering (reliability and vulnerability), economics (cost and…
- 2009.03.18 The Business Continuity Institute
The Business Continuity Institute (BCI) was established in 1994 to…
- 2009.03.17 Jumpstart your VEN adventure
A VEN is a way for businesses to achieve virtual scale, enabling it…
- 2009.03.16 Er rassikring lønnsomt?
Rassikring av veger har en klar samfunnsøkonomisk nytteverdi, men…
- 2009.03.15 Managing Supply Chain Risk
Did you know that the Supply Chain Council (SCS) has extended their…
- 2009.03.14 Understanding risks in Virtual Enterprise Networks
I am currently writing a book chapter for the book Managing Risk in…
- 2009.03.13 Saving Norway’s crumbling infrastructure
The government intends to spend some 320,000,000 NOK…
- 2009.03.13 D-Day for Norway’s Transport Infrastructure
Today, on this ominous date, Friday the 13th, Norway’s government…
- 2009.03.09 The supply chain of the future
Instrumented, interconnected and intelligent. That is IBM’s vision of…
- 2009.03.06 Magnified Risk in Multi-Enterprise Supply Chains
Even if the manufacturing takes place out-house, product design…
- 2009.03.05 Call for papers – MITIP 2009
The factory of the future is calling for a shift in strategic vision….
- 2009.03.04 Supply chain disruption risk on the rise
Every year, Aon publishes a political risk map, and in 2009 the…
- 2009.03.03 Supply chains and barcodes
Have you ever thought about how barcodes are a major factor in…
- 2009.03.03 Vulnerability in business relationships
The perceived trust and the perceived dependence in business…
- 2009.03.02 The curse of being oil-rich
Ah…the complacency of being oil rich. So complacent, in fact, that…
- 2009.03.02 Managing Disruption Risks in the Supply Chain – the DRISC model
The Disruption Risks in Supply Chain (DRISC) model is developed for…
- 2009.03.01 Infrastructure – essential for competitiveness?
In overall infrastructure quality, Norway ranks 28/134, behind many…
- 2009.03.01 Fewer suppliers mean fewer choices for consumers
What used to be a banking crisis is now a manufacturing crisis and…
- 2009.02.27 The effects of brand reputation on supply chain risk
SAAB owes money to some 1400 debtors, and rumors have it that some…
- 2009.02.26 Interpreting Resiliency
Kelly Pitera explores and evaluates resiliency efforts currently…
- 2009.02.25 What is Freight Transportation System Resilience?
The paper defines resilience along three dimensions: Physical…
- 2009.02.24 How to count money spent on road investments
Norway spent less money on road investments in 2007 than in 1995,…
- 2009.02.23 How come one of the world’s richest countries has one of the world’s worst road network?
- 2009.02.23 7 out of 10 businesses in Norway without a continuity plan
How does ICT-failure link up with supply chain…
- 2009.02.20 Less supply chain disruptions with vendor managed inventory?
How does a traditional supply chain compare to a vendor managed…
- 2009.02.18 Global Risks 2009 – Countries at risk?
How will the current financial downturn affect supply chains?…
- 2009.02.16 Supply Chain Security – an overview and research agenda
The article claims to have found four approaches in the literature on…
- 2009.02.13 Investing in Supply Chain Security – Reaping Collateral Benefits
- 2009.02.12 Economists versus Technocrats – who wins?
- 2009.02.10 Balanced Scorecards for Supply Chains
- 2009.02.10 The BBC box
- 2009.02.04 CSCMP Europe 2009 Conference – where SCM professionals meet
- 2009.02.03 How to secure your supply chain – 7/7
- 2009.02.01 The Supply Chain Risk Management Seminar Barcelona 2009
- 2009.01.31 The European Supply Chain & Logistics Summit
- 2009.01.30 How to secure your supply chain – 6/7
- 2009.01.29 MITIP2009 – a conference worth considering
- 2009.01.28 Book Review: Supply Chain Risk – A Handbook of Assessment, Managment and Performance
- 2009.01.22 Global Risk Reports
- 2009.01.15 When disaster strikes…
- 2009.01.11 Supply Chain Disruptions in Sparse Transportation Networks: Does Location Matter?
2008 (84)
- 2008.12.21 How to secure your supply chain – 5/7
- 2008.12.17 How to secure your supply chain – 4/7
- 2008.12.11 Norwegian roads are slooooow…
- 2008.12.09 How to secure your supply chain – 3/7
- 2008.12.07 How to secure your supply chain – 2/7
- 2008.12.06 How to secure your supply chain – 1/7
- 2008.12.05 How to secure your supply chain
- 2008.12.01 Airports – vital to supply chains?
- 2008.11.19 Supply Chain Risk Management – a practicioner’s perspective
- 2008.11.18 Supply chain disruptions by pirates – now a real threat?
- 2008.11.17 The threat of Somali pirates force shipping companies to take the long route
- 2008.11.17 Thanks to Somali pirates Santa will not be coming this year?
- 2008.11.16 Business Intelligence – a key element in Supply Chain Risk Management
- 2008.11.14 TRB 2009 – are you going there, too?
- 2008.11.13 The Supply Chain Network Project
- 2008.11.12 Supply Chain Risk – the dark side of supply chain management
- 2008.11.05 Conferences in Transportation and Supply Chain
- 2008.11.04 Sparse transportation networks – a nightmare for supply chains
- 2008.11.04 A Future Research Agenda for Supply Chain Risk Management
- 2008.11.02 Strategies for managing risk in multinational corporations
- 2008.10.31 Global Supply Chain Risk Management
- 2008.10.27 Can Somali pirates bring down European supply chains?
- 2008.10.26 International Transport Economics Conference 2009
- 2008.10.22 Avoid Supply Chain Breakdown by Tailoring Your Risk Management
- 2008.10.18 Ericsson versus Nokia – the now classic case of supply chain disruption
When faced with a supply chain disruption, proactive and reactive…
- 2008.10.15 Risikohåndtering i forsyningskjeder
- 2008.10.12 Global Risks 2008 – A prediction come true
- 2008.10.09 A new supply chain perspective: The supply chain life cycle
Not only is a supply chain a network of interlinked actors, but the…
- 2008.10.04 Sparse transportation networks – overcoming locational disadvantage
- 2008.09.29 Will your business byte the dust?
- 2008.09.19 Sparse transportation networks – a recipe for supply chain disruptions?
- 2008.09.18 Sustainable Manufacturing Summit Europe
- 2008.09.17 Identification and simulation of risks in supply networks
- 2008.09.16 Sustainability means less vulnerability?
- 2008.09.02 A conceptual framework of vulnerability in firms' inbound and outbound logistics flows
- 2008.09.01 A conceptual framework for the analysis of vulnerability in supply chains
- 2008.08.29 America’s Crumbling Infrastructure
- 2008.08.25 Drivers of supply chain vulnerability
- 2008.08.24 Norwegian roads are dangerous!
- 2008.08.06 Finding the right location – minimizing disruption costs
- 2008.08.04 Economies of scale
- 2008.08.04 From the back room to the board room – supply chain risk management
- 2008.08.03 Accessibility Index – a measure of Transport Network Vulnerability?
- 2008.07.19 Supply Chain Disruptions – Does location matter?
- 2008.07.11 The Severity of Supply Chain Disruptions: Design Characteristics and Mitigation Capabilities
- 2008.07.10 Book Review: Research Methodologies in Supply Chain Management
- 2008.07.09 Cutting back on road spending may not be a wise thing to do
- 2008.07.06 Supply Chain Visibility through Web Conferencing
- 2008.07.04 NOFOMA – The Nordic Logistics Research Network
- 2008.07.03 Is there a distinctive Nordic approach to Logistics and Supply Chain Management?
- 2008.07.02 Hyper-optimization and supply chain vulnerability: an invisible global risk?
- 2008.07.01 eSourcingWiki – can it be trusted?
- 2008.06.30 Book Review: The Definitive Handbook of Business Continuity Management
- 2008.06.29 Supply Chain Risk Management and Business Continuity Management
- 2008.06.28 A lesson in supply chain disruption: German railway transport during WWII
- 2008.06.27 Location, location, location – Supply chain management in disruption-susceptible locations
- 2008.06.27 Assess the vulnerability of your production system
- 2008.06.26 Sheffi’s disruption profile
- 2008.06.25 A risky business? The top 10 challenges of offshoring
- 2008.06.23 Categorization of Supply Chain Risk and Risk Management
- 2008.06.20 The difference between legal and illegal supply chains
- 2008.06.19 An empirical investigation into supply chain vulnerability
- 2008.06.17 Managing risk in global supply chains
- 2008.06.15 Can you outsource risk?
- 2008.06.14 Book review: Supply Chain Risk Management
- 2008.06.11 Building a secure and resilient supply chain
- 2008.06.06 Piracy at sea – is your supply chain at risk?
- 2008.05.29 Supply Chain Risk Management 2008
- 2008.05.18 Defining and Measuring Economic Resilience
In contrast to the pre-event character of mitigation, economic…
- 2008.04.30 The art of reviewing journal submissions
It’s always interesting to look at the submission in question and…
- 2008.04.29 Should you join the Supply Chain Network SCN?
From a quick browse before making this post I realized there are…
- 2008.04.28 Robustness, flexibility and resilience in the supply chain
In a previous post I discussed the issue of Flexibility and…
- 2008.04.27 Risk Central
Risk Central is a private and personal initiative and web portal…
- 2008.04.26 Why risk is the buzzword in supply chain management
What is supply chain risk? Today I will take a closer look at the…
- 2008.04.25 Book Review: Logistics and Supply Chain Management
Responsiveness, reliability and relationships are the basis for…
- 2008.04.22 Supply chains compete, not companies
Martin Christopher’s particular research interests lie at the…
- 2008.04.18 Three steps to make your supply chain less vulnerable
To make the supply chain more resilient, businesses need to do more…
- 2008.04.15 Will Climate Change have an impact on transportation?
Transportation professionals should look into the challenges posed by…
- 2008.04.13 Book Review: Strategies and Tactics in Supply Chain Event Management
Laden with case studies this book thoroughly explains what possible…
- 2008.04.11 The International Supply Chain Risk Management Network (ISCRIM)
The main purpose of the ISCRIM-network is to speed up, and improve,…
- 2008.03.25 Supply Chain Risk Management: A Neural Network Approach
Supply chain event management (abbreviated as SCEM) is a…
- 2008.03.11 Book Review: Supply Chain Risk
The book fully shows that supply chain risk management is a wide…
- 2008.01.18 International Conference on Flexible Supply Chains in a Global Economy, 16 – 18 July 2008, Molde, Norway
Since this conference is held right at my doorstep I thought I should…
- 2008.01.16 Book Review: Supply Chain Risk Management
This excellent book by Donald Waters offers a comprehensive overview…
2007 (13)
- 2007.12.31 Do you know where your truck fleet is right now? No? You should.
These days, GPS technology can not only pinpoint any vehicle’s…
- 2007.12.23 Oslo airport shut-down…lessons learned?
The airline industry is a highly competitive market and even…
- 2007.12.12 Book Review: The Resilient Enterprise: Overcoming Vulnerability for Competitive Advantage
To me, this book by Yossi Sheffi was an eye-opener, not so much for…
- 2007.12.10 Why we need to think the unthinkable
To think the unthinkable, to plan for the unthinkable is maybe not…
- 2007.12.09 Can Supply Chain Management learn from Emergency Management?
Readiness, Response and Recovery are four key elements in the New…
- 2007.10.09 Impact assessment of road transportation projects
The strength of the Norwegian impact assesment method is how…
- 2007.09.15 The Swedish Road Network – Vulnerable or not?
This methodology for vulnerability analysis of road networks that can…
- 2007.09.09 How New Zealand develops resilient organisations
As our infrastructure and organisations become ever more networked…
- 2007.09.02 Is Your Supply Chain Vulnerable?
Supply chain vulnerability is an important business issue, but little…
- 2007.09.01 Book Review: Logistics Management and Strategy
I have found it hard to find a book that explains the concepts of…
- 2007.08.26 How to disrupt a supply chain
A typical supply chain consists of a company with incoming raw…
- 2007.02.06 Book review: Cost-Benefit Analysis – Concepts and Practice
This book by Anthony Boardman et al. is aheavy read. It is not a book…
- 2007.01.05 Cost-Benefit Analysis – an essay about valuation problems
Reliability and vulnerability are important elements in ensuring a…
2006 (1)
- 2006.05.16 Transport Network Vulnerability – which metrics should we use?
This paper presents a review of road network vulnerability, seeking…
2005 (2)
- 2005.03.05 Book Review: Transportation GIS
This book showcases many examples of how GIS can be applied in the…
- 2005.01.13 The vulnerability of road networks in a cost-benefit perspective
A reliable transportation network represents a net benefit to…
2004 (10)
- 2004.12.15 Flexibility and robustness as options to reduce risk and uncertainty
Acknowledging one’s exposure to risks and devising a strategy for how…
- 2004.10.06 Reliability and vulnerability versus costs and benefits
the focal point of this paper is to look at a road network from a…
- 2004.08.25 Book review: The Network Reliability of Transport
I guess you would have to have attended the conference yourself or be…
- 2004.08.25 Book review: Handbook of Transportation Engineering
Comprehensive and all-encompassing, this handbook may be way to much…
- 2004.08.25 Book review: Transport – An Economics and Management Perspective
Kept at an executive level, this book delves just deep enough for you…
- 2004.08.25 Reliability and vulnerability versus costs and benefits
The paper outlines a framework for developing a methodology that to…
- 2004.04.25 Why reliability and vulnerability should be an issue in road development projects
Why is the reliability, or conversely, the vulnerability, of the…
- 2004.04.20 Pålitelighet og sårbarhet – et ikke-tema i nyttekostnadsanalyser?
Pålitelighet og sårbarhet er to forhold av betydning for…
- 2004.01.28 Book review: Cost-Benefit Analysis: Theory and Application
I used this book to learn more about cost-benefit analysis (CBA) in…
- 2004.01.27 Book Review: Transportation Network Analysis
Drawing heavily on academic knowledge this book almost requires a…
2003 (1)
- 2003.08.25 Book review: Geographic Information Systems for Transportation
Mind you, this book is not for the fainthearted, this is solid…
2002 (7)
- 2002.12.05 ArcView Network Analyst Tutorial
How to solve 3 network analysis problems; Find Best Route, Find…
- 2002.05.05 Utvikling av en helhetlig metode for analyse av pålitelighet og sårbarhet av transportsystemer
Påliteligheten og sårbarheten i et transportsystem er avgjørende…
- 2002.04.25 The reliability and vulnerability of transportation lifelines
Transportation networks like freeways and interstate highways are the…
- 2002.04.04 JavalancheTM – analyzing hazards to roads
In the approach used in this procedure, imagine traveling along the…
- 2002.04.03 Shortest Path Computation: A Comparative Analysis
Current research work into establishing a performance efficiency…
- 2002.03.22 A spatial framework for modeling hazards to transportation lifelines
Transportation networks are exposed to a wide range of natural…
- 2002.01.27 Book review: Networks and Algorithms
This book tells you the difference between the various types of…
2001 (4)
- 2001.10.31 Can it really be that dangerous? Issues in visualization of risk and vulnerability
Visualization technology has emerged as a form of exploratory…
- 2001.05.12 MFworks Tutorial
This tutorial, developed in 2002, is a showcase on network analysis…
- 2001.04.25 Corridor Analysis – A timeline of evolutionary development
Locating a corridor connecting an origin and a destination on a…
- 2001.02.01 The use of air photos in emergency management
Air photos can capture a lot more information than field surveys can,…
2000 (4)
- 2000.09.01 How to make a straight line square
The research of this thesis for the Msc in GIS explores the topic of…
- 2000.06.25 Fastest path problems in dynamic transportation networks
This research essay and literature review investigates some of the…
- 2000.03.19 Book Review: This is where raster GIS started…
…well not really, but Geographic Information Systems and…
- 2000.02.15 ERDAS tutorial
This tutorial is taken from my coursework for the MSc in GIS at the…
1999 (3)
- 1999.11.28 How to use IDRISI GIS
This paper was written in 1999 as part of my coursework for the MSc…
- 1999.11.14 Road Transportation Management using GIS – vehicle routing and tracking
Using GIS in the field of transportation opens up a wide range of…
- 1999.10.11 Network analysis – raster versus vector – A comparison study
The key to producing successful network models is in understanding…
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